Looking to start selling items online? I hope so, because this can be something lucrative for the budding entrepreneur even if it is a home business and something on a small scale. You can actually start earning a very good supplemental income this way. In this article, I will talk about some things you can start selling online today with little start up.

Start selling childrens toys and clothes.

One of the items that are selling online right now are children’s clothes and other such items. You can start selling these and make a healthy profit margin also. There are many companies that look for bargains online and send you email alerts when they find them. You pay a small fee for this service of course but you will find that sometimes you can get stuff for 50-75% off the retail price and then sell them to make a healthy profit. Sounds like a good idea to me.

Start selling your own items.

If you have some spare stuff in your garage or in your home, you may want to list that stuff and sell it online too. Just make sure you take some really flattering photos of the stuff you are selling otherwise you can get rated down very quickly. Take photos of the actual product in a white background and post them online. You should get some offers like that..

Start ordering products from wholesalers and then selling them online.

There are many drop shipping providers online that will provide you with products for you to sell. In fact drop shipping, which is similar to affiliate marketing, is starting to take off really well because you will find that many small businesses don’t have the storage space to hold a lot of stock. So what drop shippers do is that they will store and deliver the products for you. What you do is simply get orders from customers, for products you do not have in stock and then pass on the order particulars to the drop shipper. He will then send the item to the customer and your profit is the difference between the wholesale price and the retail price. More on this later on.

Selling other people’s products

When you are sell other people’s products you get an affiliate commission on the sales they make. This commission depends on whether the product is a physical good or a digital one and you can make good money like this. The key is to be a good marketer of products. There is a lot of information on selling items online this way and some of the other ways listed in this article. Make sure you learn about them really well. One good resource for this is WA University.